Why you don't need a Dutch course (with like living teachers and stuff) to get started
Let's face it, there is almost no fact about Dutch vocabulary or grammar which you cannot google somehow. Of course, the information is not always sufficient and might lead you to wrong conclusions now and then. But then again, there are also many interactive exercises online and there is the whole interactive country to try it out on.
So you should enter the world of Dutch online learning with an open and flexible mind and you should dare improvise like nobody's business when talking to the Dutch.
The awkwardness of being a Dutch learner
Of course, there will be the whole awkwardness around it and you will have to break through it. In this country it is awkward if you are not from here and it is awkward if you are from here and it is awkward if you want to stay and it is awkward if you want to leave. More importantly for our purposes, it is awkward if you want to learn Dutch and it is awkward if you don't want to learn it. We call that maatschappelijk onbehagen. Due to the maatschappelijk onbehagen (OK, OK, I'm skipping a few steps here), many Dutch people are generally unable to adapt to second-language speakers of Dutch and therefore prefer speaking English to foreigners. One of the consequences is that in all the materials below the pronounced Dutch sounds quite unnatural: the speakers start pronouncing each words separately (which is exactly what you don't do in Dutch) and then you get all kinds of impossible effects (e.g. they start pronouncing "het" with a stress and the silent h in it gets pronounced etc.)
To sum it all up: no one can make you feel awkward without your consent, so just keep speaking Dutch.
Phrase books
If you just want to pick up some phrases and get a general impression, www.book2.eu is a nice place to start. You can download these hundred short lessons and put them on your MP3 player. If you hear them 3 thousand times, you will memorise them.
Courses
If you have been trying to take an online course, you will probably have noticed that most of them are structured in ways which make it hard not to go totally ADHD/disoriented. In order to avoid that, I suggest you start with www.taalthuis.com
It is a very decent course, and most of the grammar explanations do work. Plus there are even some exercises.
Once you have got your basic stuff, you can move on to the ADHD stuff because you are now equipped with enough knowledge to select information. My favourite ADHD resource is http://www.heardutchhere.net/ with its enormous collection of information on all kinds of aspects of Dutch. On this site you will find many fine points of the grammar and vocabulary which most Dutch speakers are not aware of (e.g. deuvelmal). So I guess you can happily interact with this site if you try not to learn things which you don't know in your mother tongue.
Another such place is www.dutchgrammar.com/. There are some unstructured lessons there as well, but the best way to use this site is just to search for the specific item you are interested in. They often have excellent articles on grammar topics.
If you are into interactive stuff, do the few courses they have on www.livemocha.com and you will probably be forced to meet some people to interact with :)
Finally, www.ielanguages.com gives you a very nice overview of all kinds of vocabulary and grammar, but I would not call it a course or a tutorial.
Other collections of study materials
There are many other places which offer content on Dutch. For instance, www.mylanguages.org/ also has lots on stuff on Dutch, but not structured as lessons.
Grammar
I would actually start by reading the overview on wikipedia just to get a general impression. A more serious tutorial, accompanied by exercises, can be found on www.dutch.ac.uk/beginners.dutch.grammar/.
Vocabulary
It is always good to have a good dictionary. I recommend http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/.
As for learning your vocabulary online, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do it, but also how hard it is to actually build up a decent vocabulary while sitting in front of your computer. Most of the resources above have some vocabulary lists/sections, the best specialised vocabulary trainer is http://www.dutch-flashcards.com/.
On the more chaotic side of the spectrum, memrise has some excellent vocabulary trainers and lingua.ly has a web app which can allows you to read texts in languages you don't really master.
Dutch word of the day
I have to admit I'm secretly in love with these guys (ooops, there goes the secrecy). On this website, you can get your daily piece of the Dutch culture presented in an amusing way and organised around a word and/or expression. Half of the things you need to know, the other half you can charm the Dutchies with!
Your horoscope in Dutch
I swear that someone asked me about this one :) Astro.com will calculate your personal daily horoscope and tell you everything about yesterday, today and tomorrow in Dutch, English and a couple of other languages. Even if you don't buy this kind of stuff, you can rarely find such a nice collection of paralel texts about everyday stuff.
Als je vanuit het Nederlands wil leren
Er zijn mensen die om een of andere reden al heel goed Nederlands kunnen lezen en verstaan, maar hun andere vaardigheden willen verbeteren. Als je zo iemand bent, dan wil je het niet allemaal vanuit het Engels leren. In dat geval kun je terecht op http://nt2.kennisnet.nl/oefenen/nederlands
Als je al heel erg gevorderd bent, maar toch wil blijven leren, kun je je bijvoorbeeld op de Woordpost of de Taalpost abonneren.
Für Deutsche
Ich würde Holländisch auf keinen Fall durch Englisch lernen. Was man als Deutschsprachige(r) lernen soll, ist eine Art "Transformationsgrammatik", mit der man sein Deutsch ins Holländische transformieren kann (ohne seine Muttersprache zu vergessen, denn das passiert die ganze Zeit, wenn man eine verwadte Fremdsprache lernt). Es gibt glücklicherweise genug deutsche Seiten über die Nachbarsprache. Hier findet man einen Überblick darüber.
Succes ermee!
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